{"id":1913,"date":"2017-10-24T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T13:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:57:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T10:57:53","slug":"tanzanian-singer-apologises-for-kenyatta-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/24\/tanzanian-singer-apologises-for-kenyatta-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzanian singer apologises for Kenyatta prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Tanzanian gospel artist Christina Shusho has apologised for a Facebook post that upset opponents of Kenya&#8217;s President Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/p>\n<p>The singer posted a prayer on Saturday which asked God to &#8220;give your servant Uhuru Kenyatta wisdom and answer his prayers whenever his call&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Give him knowledge to lead the country and when he calls answer him,&#8221; the prayer added.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga criticised Ms Shusho for her perceived one-sided prayer. She ended up deleting the post.<\/p>\n<p>The singer told Kenya&#8217;s privately owned Star newspaper that she was sorry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not my intention to hurt you guys. Again, I am sorry. I just want to say that I will continue praying for you. Let love lead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Odinga has withdrawn from Thursday&#8217;s presidential election re-run, saying it will be a sham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Tanzanian gospel artist Christina Shusho has apologised for a Facebook post that upset opponents of Kenya&#8217;s President Uhuru Kenyatta. The singer posted a prayer on Saturday which asked God to &#8220;give your servant Uhuru Kenyatta wisdom and answer his prayers whenever his call&#8221;. &#8220;Give him knowledge to lead the country and when he calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":1914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110,125,124,109,126],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-gossip","tag-kenya","tag-keynya","tag-news","tag-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}